Emulating Antiquity

Author : David Hemsoll
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225768
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emulating Antiquity written by David Hemsoll and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

Author : Elaine K. Gazda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472111893
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Art of Emulation written by Elaine K. Gazda and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

Author : David Mayernik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317039254
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture written by David Mayernik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.

Author : Yonghao Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819724015
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics from Ancient China written by Yonghao Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moritz Mücke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 365686344X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquity in "The Federalist Papers" written by Moritz Mücke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,3, , course: The Federalist, language: English, abstract: The significance of antiquity and of examples drawn from antiquity during the American founding era is contested among scholars. While Hannah Arendt asserted that without the classical example the American revolutionaries, ''conscious of emulating ancient virtue,'' would not have had the courage to rebel, Bernard Bailyn famously suggested that frequent references to antiquity were merely ''illustrative, not determinative'' of revolutionary thought. As familiarity with antiquity was evident during the Revolutionary War, it is less clear what role it played in the construction of the new American regime under the constitution of 1787, a time during which not virtuous warfare but positive political philosophy was called for. Hence, a thorough examination of The Federalist shall serve to illuminate the extent to which the founding generation's political science was inspired by ancient precedent, resulting in the conclusion that examples drawn from antiquity did not supersede those drawn from other periods in human history, and that therefore no unique or special status can be ascribed to antiquity in this context.

Author : Edward Buckton Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies of Ancient Domestic Architecture written by Edward Buckton Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198700393
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy in the Age of the Renaissance written by John M. Najemy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twelve essays in this volume present an introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics" -- provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317280237
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Modern Historical Thought written by Paul Avis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Newton, Leibniz and Bayle on the way.

Author : Jóhann Páll Árnason
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515077477
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agon, Logos, Polis written by Jóhann Páll Árnason and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten papers, from a conference held at Ohio State University in 1997, reconsider Greek experience and its lessons for later cultures from a variety of perspectives. The contributions reflect in particular the central role of politics and the `Polis', so distinctively and uniquely Greek, in the development of Greek culture. The papers also consider Greek philosophy, drama and the Greek view of the natural and divine world around them and demonstrate the continuing influence of Hellenism by discussing modern adaptations of Greek models. Contributors include Johann Arnason, Cornelius Castoriadis, Vassilis Lambropoulos, Christian Meier, Oswyn Murray, Peter Murphy, Kurt Raaflaub, Louis Ruprecht, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

Author : Ann McGrath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351723634
Total Pages : 979 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History written by Ann McGrath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods. The volume starts with an introduction that explores definitions of Indigenous peoples, followed by six thematic sections which each have a global spread: European uses of history and the positioning of Indigenous people as history’s outsiders; their migrations and mobilities; colonial encounters; removals and diasporas; memory, identities, and narratives; deep histories and pathways towards future Indigenous histories that challenge the nature of the history discipline itself. This book illustrates the important role of Indigenous history and Indigenous knowledges for contemporary concerns, including climate change, spirituality and religious movements, gender negotiations, modernity and mobility, and the meaning of ‘nation’ and the ‘global’. Reflecting the state of the art in Indigenous global history, the contributors suggest exciting new directions in the field, examine its many research challenges and show its resonances for a global politics of the present and future. This book is invaluable reading for students in both undergraduate and postgraduate Indigenous history courses.